Note 875 — Chapter X
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Spain suspected the Sultan was desirous of securing a French roadstead for his fleet during the siege of Malta. See Commentaires et lettres de Montluc, V, 38, note; D’Aubigné, 221, and n. 1; Papiers d’état du cardinal de Granvelle, VIII, 162; L’Ambassade de St. Sulpice, 398; R. Q. H., XXXIV, 473-78.